Putin Suggests Russia 'Would Sooner Use Nuclear Weapons Than Accept Defeat'
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz agreed to provide Ukraine with its Leopard 2 tanks
Russian President Vladimir Putin, while marking the 80th anniversary of completion of the Battle of Stalingrad, said Russia is once again threatened by German tanks.
“Those who hope to defeat Russia on the battlefield do not understand, it seems, that a modern war with Russia will be very different for them," Putin told an audience in Volgograd - the modern name for Stalingrad, the BBC reported. "We are not sending our tanks to their borders, but we have the means to respond. It won't be limited to the use of armored hardware. Everyone must understand this.”
George Szamuely, the author of “Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia, 2014,” tweeted, Putin “clearly suggested that Russia will not be defeated and that Russia would sooner use nuclear weapons than accept defeat. The war-cheerleading media have ignored his comment.:
This week’s issue of The Trends Journal goes into extensive detail about the U.S. and German decision to send tanks into Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced last week that Berlin will provide Ukraine with 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks and allow other willing European countries to provide Leopards from their militaries.
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“This decision hews to our known line, which is to support Ukraine to the best of our ability,” Scholz said. “We are acting in close international coordination.”
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Dmitry Peskov said Russia “categorically” disagrees with comments from the West stating that these weapon shipments do not mean direct conflict with Moscow.
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“In Moscow, everything that the alliance and the capitals I mentioned are doing is seen as direct involvement in the conflict. We see that this is growing,” he said.
Biden continues to make the imbecilic comments that providing these weapons pose “no offensive threat” as though these tanks don’t have the ability to roll into Russia. He insists that these tanks merely help Ukrainian troops “improve their ability to maneuver on the battlefield.”
Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s security council and close Putin ally, said the evolution of the war shows that the U.S. and NATO “intend to continue making efforts to drag out this military conflict and have become participants.”
Philip Short’s book “Putin” explains how Putin’s older brother, Viktor, died during Germany’s brutal siege of Leningrad during WWII. The siege lasted 872 days and took as many as 1.5 million lives.
Carnegie Europe noted that after WWII, “Germany spent years trying to create trust with Russia in order to overcome the centuries of conflict and reshape this complex relationship.”
HISTORY
Back in 1941, following signed political and economic pacts between Germany and the Soviet Union, Hitler broke the agreement and launched Operation Barbarossa—the three million German troop invasion which was the largest in the history of warfare—to conquer and control Russia. An estimated 24 million Russians died during WWII, according to the National WWII Museum.
At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, instead of sounding like a war hawk from the U.S., Scholz condemned the invasion and vowed to send military helmets to Ukraine while other countries were already sending “defensive” weapons, like there is such a thing.
Germany was even mocked at one time when it refused to allow Britain to use its airspace to deliver anti-tank missiles to Kyiv.
But Scholz was a fast learner.
Scholz addressed the Bundestag in June and vowed to turn the country’s military into the largest in Europe to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank, which is code for Russia.
Scholz used the Russian invasion of Ukraine as his impetus to strengthen his own military. Berlin has already earmarked $107 billion for military projects and will now spend 2 percent of its GDP on its military.
“The German Bundeswehr will be strengthened,” Scholz said, referring to its military. “It will be in a position to fulfill its defense mission better than ever, and it will be able to make its contribution in NATO so that we can defend ourselves any time against attacks from outside.”
Putin told the audience on Thursday that 80 years after the conclusion of WWII, German tanks are threatening Russia again.
The Battle for Stalingrad lasted 200 days and left the city in rubble but he said “the entire Hitler coalition was broken.”
“Our moral duty, first of all to the victorious soldiers, is to cherish and preserve the memory of this exploit in its entirety, pass it on to the next generations, not to allow anyone to belittle or distort the role of the Battle of Stalingrad in the victory over Nazism, in the liberation of the whole world from this monstrous evil,” he said.
He said Russia finds itself, again, fighting against the "collective West."